Opinion: Taranto Talks Back: Al Gore’s Inconvenient Untruth

Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on Al Gore’s global warming inconsistencies in his latest interview with Ezra Klein. Photo: Getty Images

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... what child about what some readers say a lot when you're all the recent columns and that was the one about al or global warming and the alleged in and a Chanel for Manhattan by ... a rising waters ... as the Ken Fisher had to say ... bought or made no such protection Bollore Manhattan becoming permanently submerged in the video clip he does stake the consequences if the ice caps melt ... he made no prediction as to when that might happen removing a statement from its context is the right wing ... and jet prop method ... actor from Mr. TORONTO wax are two points or free show it's true that the wig were presented this too was a conditional statement I thought it was conditional on ... Samaritaine creditor status in the light green one breaking in half over the ice breaking have recently ... I'd ... but the point is ... he was not suggesting that this was a fanciful run likely outcome of the whole point was to stir up ... by Thai alarm about the the the possibility but second ... it was Gore in this interview last week with Ezra Klein who said look my prediction was right ... on the World Trade Center site was covered in water well yet was covered in water because of the storm surge ... anti the flooding last few days and now it's back to normal Nareit John Tech had this to say why would we think that the current climate dynamic as it is naturally is the ideal one this is simply the typical use of fear mongering for political benefit ... the result is that science itself suffers in the public on a as quiet for a ... yes I'm the first of all ... I'd we wouldn't be aggressive war for ... which it tried for a long time the climate was pretty stable ... and the great apes didn't of all ... the great US surgeon revolution that began not a few tens of thousands of years ago was brought on by warming tracked ... by ... when people ask me do you believe in climate change I would say well Climate Change Isn't ontology ... there's no pipeline is change ... if you like climate change go to the moon is no climate there an okay well the may get the chance eventually ... finally Robert Rodriguez Gore is not a scientist his ... heart a partisan politician ... he saw that interview is a chance to deliver a stump speech ... I think that's a little unfair to politicians ... really as a Moslem well lock our door has not ... run for office were ... in ... the teeth of this entry ... I think would be I think of a more accurate description of Al Gore today ... is that he is a commercial Boxster ... the selling is movie he's selling his side you know these interest in night he and I ... I ate green energy companies ... he's selling United to his media empire which he made dive hundreds of millions of dollars slowing down to zero ... I think after the war as more a commercial operator corrupt crony capitalists ... are a rent seeking beneficiary of politicians them as a politician of something more Arike thanks alot James ... Whelan doesn't for opinion Journal I'm on Dan Henninger and I hope to see you again here tomorrow ...